Exam 3: Reducing Prejudice: How Achievable? How Important?

What is the main difference between persuasion and education?

In trying to figure out how important prejudice is as a cause of discriminatory behavior,La Pierce (1934),traveled around the United States with a Chinese couple.Later he sent questionnaires to the establishments they had visited asking if they would serve Chinese guests.What was the response of most of the businesses?

Research exploring the intergroup contact hypothesis has sought to identify the conditions under which contact is likely to reduce prejudice.Which of the following is an essential condition?

A common belief among whites and a fairly large number of blacks is that blacks and Hispanics are responsible for their own disadvantages.How does this belief tie into the American ideology of individualism and what impact does it have on support for public policy on race relations?

While whites are more likely to see prejudice in terms of individual behavior,blacks are more likely to see prejudice in terms of institutional behavior.

What is cognitive dissonance theory? Why could someone using this theory argue that changing laws can change attitudes about race relations?

Requiring the same course on diversity for all students at colleges and universities:

Education about intergroup relations is most effective in reducing prejudice when it minimizes the stress associated with admitting previous error.

Attitudes do not always determine behavior.

This form of prejudice appears to be based on the belief that blacks are getting unfair advantages that violate basic American norms such as individualism and self-reliance.A key element of this form of prejudice appears to be denial of the presence of racial inequality in society.What is this called?

People assigned to integrated settings in public housing and to integrated troop units and military barracks:

When prejudice arises from personality needs,many social psychologists feel that the best remedy is:

Which of the following may limit the potential of intergroup-relations when used in educational settings?

Which theory says that we want to believe our behavior is consistent with our attitudes?

Sherif and his colleagues divided a group of boys attending scout camp into two groups and then placed the groups in difficult and frustrating situations.Eventually the two groups became very hostile toward each other.How did the experimenters get the hostility between the two groups to dissipate?

Which of the following is NOT one of the possible ways of reducing racial and ethnic prejudice?

The potential of persuasive communication appears to be greatest in influencing

When whites,who generally deny the existence of black disadvantage,are pressed to account for whatever disadvantage blacks experience,they usually maintain that _________ mainly responsible.

Most of the white respondents to Gallup polls as recently as 1997,express a desire to live in all white neighborhoods.

Fishbein (1996)in a review of studies of the effects of media messages against prejudice on schoolchildren found: